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A man of thunder and power in 4 strings or 6. I hope he finishes, or, if it's completed, actually gets to see his piece for three orchestras performed. I hope he keeps on truckin' for all of us. Glad he's out playing with his family.

Back to the bickering Bettys of the Floyd: not a huge fan of The Wall album or film, dig some songs, the Bricks, Numb, In the Flesh, Run Like Hell (had a band that used to jam the hell out of this one), but so dark and dreary. However, seeing it live in 2012 was one of the best concert experiences I've ever had. As was Waters on the Us & Them tour in 2018. I would love an Animals tour, the newishly released 2018 remix is utterly fantastic. I got the BluRay and each version sounds so much better, Nick Mason's drums sound great. Hate there was no show from 1977 or any outtakes or anything, other than maybe a rumored easter egg of the 8 track-only release of the joined up Pigs On the Wing with Snowy White guitar solo.

Forgot about the Wembley 74 WYWH and Raving and Drooling and You Gotta Be Crazy on the Immersion set. I can't recall listening to that disc more than once or twice. When I play that, it's the 5.1 for that amazing Have a cigar mix with the multiple bass tracks all around on the intro, each with phaser. That was the standout moment on there, but Shine On in surround is just amazing as well.

I'd snap it up in a second if they were to do an Immersion box of Meddle with that 5.1 mix by James Guthrie that was hidden in those few Early Years boxes (which may or may not have been among those that failed beginning in 2019...), I know there's tons of outtakes for that album. Don't know how many takes of the other songs, but the collection of Nothing pts 1-24 (they only put out Nothing pt 14 on Early Years), The Son of Nothing, Return of the Son of Nothing, maybe some different takes of the Echoes guitar solos?

Love Atom Heart Mother! Think the Early Years 1970 Devi/ation pretty well covers any need for extras, quadrophonic mix of the album, video on KQED, several live versions of the epic, and older classics.

Happy Birthday Phil.

Spending this evening at the capital theatre with Mr. Lesh. Happy Birthday Phil!

PHIL! Good suggestion PT! Digging that tape out now.
Got that Hard To Handle and a cool Jack-a-roe as I recall.
Been messing with cassette decks today anyhow.
Just finished a tape of Dead Set from the Warfield/Radio City.
Amazing sound quality for a tape from CD. Must have been a multi-track.
Damn good year 1980.
Cheers

wow, Phil bear still truckin at 83. I gotta say, I hope I can still smile like that when I get that old, if I make it till then. So I put on Fallout from the Phil Zone this afternoon, some nice picks on that one. New Speedway Boogie from 3 days before the Kent state shootings, an Easy Wind from 2 weeks later, so good. The 31 min. In the Midnite hour from November 67 is a historic document and the Visions of Johanna from 3-18-95 is just soo good. Happy birthday Phil and thanks for the picks.
Not a big fan of The wall either. There are a couple of tunes on the lp I can tolerate but mostly that one just doesn't get the play here, I don't even own a copy anymore. I do have a great little cd titled "The Film" which has different versions of the Wall tunes. I prefer pre Dark Side of the Moon Floyd, after that, not so much, altho WYWH has a couple good tunes too.

I didn't like it much when it came out, but it has aged well for me. It seemed to chime with the mood of the time in England, with punk rock and every body getting bloody angry. The Floyd were getting angry too... so watch out. It was a long way from ideals like "Julia Dream" which always reminds me of walking round an art gallery looking at Pre Raphaelite paintings while slightly stoned. "Animals" wasn't exactly hey ho lets go...but in it's way it was their punk album. I haven't heard anything much after this one. The Division Bell once or twice.

I was always put off "The Wall" by this girl I used to know, years ago, who used to love the track "Comfortably Numb". Her mantra was - once a junkie, always a junkie - which she used to tell me with a look of resignation on her face. She died believing it to be true. "The Wall" reminds me of that world and perception .

Happy happy joy joy and hopefully many more to you sir!

Apparently Waters played rhythm guitar on Sheep and Pigs, while Gilmour played bass and lead guitar. So they did the 'ol switcheroo. I would classify the Sheep outro as a chord-based rhythm guitar piece, so...Waters it is.

I don't think Gilmour is a great lyricist by any stretch, and I don't own anything after The Wall (which, I agree - 25% filler - The Show Must Go On and Run Like Hell are great, but I can't take the rest of Side 4). I don't think it's a coincidence that three of the best songs on The Wall were co-written by Gilmour (Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell, Young Lust). From the demos it's obvious they're his compositions with Waters lyrics. Also keep in mind - Bob Ezrin wrote a ton of uncredited music and arrangements on the record (Waters confirms that part of the deal was no writing credits for Ezrin; but he was a multi-instrumentalist himself, and routinely wrote bridges and ordered arrangements for the bands he produced).

According to Waters, Gilmour had little to do with Floyd's success - it was all about Waters songwriting. But he did add that Gilmour sings well and plays a jolly-good guitar. All the things missing from Waters solo records. I think they both had their role and it worked for a good decade. No disrespect to Wright and Mason. The end of Shine on You has some great keyboard work.

I love Atom Heart Mother, not a weak track on it for me including Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast. It was the first Floyd record I bought and that might be a lot to do with it. I can't listen to anything after DSoM, they are all mega yawns. I have a friend who's first intro to Floyd was WYWH and he's not fond of anything before that. I think that your first taste often lasts longest.

Happy Birthday Phil, you stalwart!

By the way, which one is pink?